Eldon
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Places

  • Eldon, County Durham
    Eldon, County Durham
    Eldon is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated a few miles south-west of Bishop Auckland, a short distance from Shildon.The village became a civil parish, with a parish council, on 1 April 2003. It had previously been part of Shildon parish....

    , England
  • Eldon Lane
    Eldon Lane
    Eldon Lane is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated a few miles south-west of Bishop Auckland, a short distance from Shildon. On the High Street is The One Stop Shop...

    , County Durham, England
  • Old Eldon
    Old Eldon
    Old Eldon is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated a short distance to the east of Bishop Auckland....

    , County Durham, England
  • Eldon Hill
    Eldon Hill
    Eldon Hill is situated in the Peak District National Park in the county of Derbyshire, England four kilometres southwest of the village of Castleton. It is a grass-covered limestone hill which reaches a height of 470 metres . It is primarily pastureland and is used for rough grazing, although a...

    , Derbyshire, England
  • Eldon, Iowa
    Eldon, Iowa
    Eldon is a city in Wapello County, Iowa, United States. The population was 998 at the 2000 census. Eldon is the site of the small Carpenter Gothic style house that has come to be known as the American Gothic House because Grant Wood used it for the background in his famous 1930 painting American...

    , USA
  • Eldon, Missouri
    Eldon, Missouri
    Eldon is a city in Miller County, Missouri, United States. It is thirty miles southwest from Jefferson City. The population was 4,895 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Eldon is located at...

    , USA
  • Eldon Township, Benson County, North Dakota
    Eldon Township, Benson County, North Dakota
    Eldon Township is a civil township in Benson County, North Dakota, United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was 53-References:...

    , USA
  • Eldon, Oklahoma
    Eldon, Oklahoma
    Eldon is a census-designated place in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 991 at the 2000 census. It lies east of Tahlequah at the junction of U.S. Highway 62 and State Highway 51. The Eldon Post Office existed from March 20, 1911, until May 30, 1936...

    , USA
  • Eldon, Washington
    Eldon, Washington
    Eldon is an unincorporated community in Mason County, Washington, United States. Eldon is located along U.S. Route 101 on the scenic Hood Canal...

    , USA, an unincorporated community
  • Eldon, Prince Edward Island
    Eldon, Prince Edward Island
    Eldon is a Canadian community in Queens County, Prince Edward Island southeast of Charlottetownin the township of Lot 57.- History :The Acadians arrived in Pointe Prime, Ile St. Jean in 1750...

    , Canada
  • Eldon No. 471, Saskatchewan
    Eldon No. 471, Saskatchewan
    Eldon No. 471, Saskatchewan, is a rural municipality of 1,473 rural residents in the northwestern part of Saskatchewan, Canada. Local Improvement District 24-5-3 was formed April 26, 1907. The RM of Eldon No. 471 was incorporated December 9, 1909...

    , Canada, a rural municipality
  • Eldon Parish, New Brunswick
    Eldon Parish, New Brunswick
    Eldon is a Canadian parish in Restigouche County, New Brunswick.-Delineation:Eldon Parish is situated at the center of Restigouche County and is bordered to the east by Addington Parish, and to the west by the parishes of Grimmer and Saint-Quentin...

    , Canada
  • Eldon Township, Ontario
    Eldon Township, Ontario
    The Township of Eldon was a municipality located in the west of the former Victoria County, now the city of Kawartha Lakes, in Ontario, Canada.- Communities :*Kirkfield*Bolsover*Glenarm*Eldon*Woodville...

    , Canada
  • Eldon Range
    Eldon Range
    Eldon Range is a mountain range in western Tasmania, Australia. It is located at the edge of Lake Burbury and the western edge of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area which includes the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park....

    , Tasmania, Australia

People

Surname
  • Dan Eldon
    Dan Eldon
    Daniel Robert Eldon was an English photojournalist. He and three colleagues were killed by an angry mob in Mogadishu. He left behind a series of journals, which his family has exhibited on a worldwide tour.-Early life:...

    , a former British photojournalist
  • David Eldon
    David Eldon
    David Gordon Eldon is former Chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. He retired in May 2005, after spending 37 years with HSBC Group. He is now the Senior Adviser of PricewaterhouseCoopers.-Personal history:...

    , former Chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
  • Earl of Eldon
    Earl of Eldon
    Earl of Eldon, in the County Palatine of Durham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1821 for the lawyer and politician John Scott, 1st Baron Scott, Lord Chancellor from 1801 to 1806 and from 1807 to 1827...

    , a hereditary title held by five people
    • John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
      John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
      John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon PC KC FRS FSA was a British barrister and politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain between 1801 and 1806 and again between 1807 and 1827.- Background and education :...

  • Kevin Eldon, comic actor
  • Thor Eldon, Icelandic/American singer, member of The Sugarcubes
    The Sugarcubes
    The Sugarcubes were an Icelandic alternative rock band formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992. They received critical and popular acclaim internationally.-History:...



Given name
  • Eldon Bargewell
    Eldon Bargewell
    Major General Eldon A. Bargewell was a general in the United States Army and commander of Delta Force.Bargewell was born in Hoquiam, Washington and graduated from Hoquiam High School in 1965....

    , US Major General investigating Haditha incident
  • Eldon Edwards
    Eldon Edwards
    Eldon Lee Edwards was a U.S. Ku Klux Klan leader.Edwards was an automobile paint sprayer from Georgia, and rebuilt the Klan beginning in 1953. In his book "The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo", Gary May notes that Edwards became prominent at a time when the...

    , Ku Klux Klan leader
  • Sir (John) Eldon Gorst
    Eldon Gorst
    Sir Eldon F. Gorst, KCB , more commonly known as Sir Eldon Gorst, was Consul-General in Egypt from 1907-1911.He was the son of Sir John Eldon F. Gorst, Solicitor General for England and Wales and Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education. Born in New Zealand but reared in London,...

     (1861–1911), British Consul-General of Egypt
  • Eldon C. Hall
    Eldon C. Hall
    Eldon Hall was the leader of hardware design efforts for the Apollo Guidance Computer at MIT, and advocated the use of integrated circuits for this task...

    , computer engineer
  • Eldon Hoke
    Eldon Hoke
    El Duce redirects here. The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was known as "Il Duce."Eldon Wayne Hoke was an American musician. Nicknamed El Duce, he was best known as the drummer and lead singer of the self-described "rape rock" band The Mentors...

    , musician, drummer and lead singer of the Mentors


Companies

  • Eldon Group, a product manufacturer headquartered in Madrid
  • Eldon (toy company)
    Eldon (toy company)
    Eldon Industries, Inc. was a toy company located in Hawthorne, California , that also in its heyday owned locations in Canada, England, Japan, and the Netherlands. The company is best known for items and brands that repackaged Japanese toys and distributed them worldwide - an example is the Billy...

    , a defunct business based in California
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